Word: rioting
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FRIDAY evening the Church of the Covenant in Boston was the scene of an extraordinary spectacle. Hundreds of people stood in lines, jammed the pews, and knelt in the aisles of that grand and holy edifice, seeking an odd mixture of sacrament and blasphemy, tradition and revolution, ritual and riot--in a word...
...merely cautious. A sergeant (Dan Aykroyd) steals a tank and starts a blackout by zapping the brightly lit Santa Claus decorations on Hollywood Boulevard. A crazy pilot (John Belushi) flies a P-40 fighter-bomber to search for enemy aircraft but succeeds only in creating panic below. A riot breaks out between native whites and Chicano zoot suiters, and General Joseph Stilwell-yes, the General Joseph Stilwell (Robert Stack)-is in charge of restoring order. Meantime, a periscope, looking suspiciously like the snout of a shark, pokes out of the Pacific, and a submarine commanded by Toshiro Mifune slithers toward...
...Justice Department has tightened the enforcement of foreign student visa rules over the past three months following a January 2 riot by Iranian students in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Russell said Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell, prompted by the Iranian riot, directed the INS to check the number of foreign students in American colleges. "Our information was about seven months behind, so we asked colleges to give us the number of foreign students enrolled with them," Russell said...
...University official said Thursday the visa enforcement policy is not new, but that after the Iranian riot the INS wanted to re-affirm its position publicly. "The INS was embarrassed that they really didn't know what foreign students were doing," the official said...